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A smart essay from Detroit's Model D highlights the transformative capacity of immigration:
The incredibly important role that Detroit played last century has been compared to the role that Silicon Valley (47 percent foreign born) plays in modern times. Our current economic transition into the new, globally competitive knowledge economy is similar to the transition we made in the early 20th Century; and our current economic woes reflect the painful transformation from an auto manufacturing center to something more viable.
No one strategy will, by itself, revitalize the Detroit regional economy. However, nothing is more powerful for remaking Detroit as a center of innovation, entrepreneurship and population growth, than embracing and increasing immigrant populations and the entrepreneurial culture and global connections that they bring and deliver.
People need places; places need people. True for everywhere, not just for Detroit.
Meanwhile, states around the country work on their own versions of Arizona's draconian immigration reform.
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